[ale] Nextel Saga continues, weirdly

[Robert L. Harris]

  Ok, While thinking over the weekend I realized one difference between
my perl script and my shell/web browser.  The perl script wasn't using
my proxy server (192.168.1.9).  When I did a
"@ENV{'http_proxy'}=192.168.1.9:3182" in the script and tried it, bingo,
page went through.  If I unset the variable in my shell it fails there.

Summary:
  From my firewall (192.168.1.1 and public ip for www.rdlg.net) I can
not connect directly to messaging.nextel.com (any ports) but I can 
www.nextel.com.  If I bounce my traffic off my proxy server first
(192.168.1.9) and then back out the firewall it works just great. 

  If I connect directly from my proxy server (lynx or even telnet port 80)
or even my desktop (192.168.1.3) WITHOUT bouncing off the proxy server
straight through the firewall I can connect just fine.

  Any connections that don't bounce off a 192.168.1/24 addr fail while
any that do work just great.

Ummm, anyone got any ideas?  This is bizaare.  A friend of mine testing
from a DSL line in Atlanta is see'ing the exact same behavior...

Robert




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 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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